Table 2B.

Average, maximum, minimum, least significant differences (l.s.d._0.05), genotypic (${\sigma }_g^2$), and experimental error (${\sigma }_{\epsilon }^2$) variance components and associated standard errors (±SE), and HS family mean repeatability (R₁) estimated from the 40 M. officinalis half sib families, evaluated at Linze.

Traits	DW	LS	PH	SD	SN	SV	LA	SY
Average	125	0.96	168	1.55	8.4	2.0	7.8	7.1
Max	207	1.18	190	2.63	11.5	3.5	8.5	10.3
Min	45	0.77	139	0.66	7.5	0.1	6.8	4.7
l.s.d.0.05	19	0.17	13	0.24	1.61	0.47	0.62	1.74
${\sigma }_g^2$	1792 ± 413	0.015 ± 0.004	190 ± 47.3	0.233 ± 0.054	1.18 ± 0.36	1.32 ± 0.31	0.24 ± 0.06	2.19 ± 0.59
${\sigma }_{\epsilon }^2$	264 ± 19	0.040 ± 0.003	170 ± 12	0.047 ± 0.003	3.80 ± 0.27	0.11 ± 0.02	0.08 ± 0.01	2.48 ± 0.23
R1	0.95	0.53	0.46	0.94	0.77	0.97	0.90	0.73

LS, leaf to stem ratio; SV, spring vigor; LA, leaf area (cm²); PH, plant height (cm); DW, herbage dry weight (g/plant); SD, stem diameter (cm); SN, stem number; SY, seed yield (g/plant).